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[email protected]. AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS AT n1BASSY 'S INDEPENDENCE DAY PARTY JULY 5.~ 1981 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME ALL OF YOU TO THIS YEAR'S INDEPENDENCE DAY PARTY, THIS YEAR.~ WE CELEBRATE THE TWO HUNDRED FIFTH - ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Two CENTURIES AGO.~ THE FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES DID MORE THAN DECLARE THAT WE- WERE FREE OF OUTSIDE CONTROL, IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.~ THEY ALSO LAID DOWN PRINCIPLES AND IDEALS THAT WE STILL - FOLLOW TODAY, FoR THE FIRST TIME.~ PEOPLE FORMED A GOVERNMENT WHICH TRULY DREW ITS AUTHORITY FROM THOSE - WHO WERE GOVERNED.~ AND WHICH DECLARED THAT .THE GOVERNMENT HAD THE DUTY TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS FROM ARBITRARY RULE AND UNREASONABLE LIMITATIONS ON INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, OVER THE YEARS.~ OTHER NATIONS HAVE ADOPTED THE IDEALS OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES.~ AND HAVE BLENDED THOSE IDEALS WITH THEIR OWN NATIONAL TRADITIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THEIR CITIZENS, JAPAN IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE COUNTRIES.